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  1. General DISH™ Discussion
    From Multichannel News: "With the stroke of a pen, the relatively drama-free STELAR Act (HR 5728) became law Thursday (Dec. 4) after the President signed the bill, which reauthorizes the satellite compulsory distant signal license for another five years, and makes some retransmission...
  2. General DISH™ Discussion
    I am not so surprised that the Dish is usable again. I discovered very early on in my dish-pointing career that the original installer has to set the dish's mounting foot at an angle to match the slope of the roof. IF the roof repair folks removed that dish/foot without shifting that...
  3. General DISH™ Discussion
    Is guide data really that large? Compared to what it takes to deliver one 24/7 SD channel, I'd think that any channel's guide data would be smaller than a rounding error. Here in Denver, any digital sub-channel that existed before a certain date (maybe three years ago?) has good data, but any...
  4. General Satellite Discussion
    What sad news! I have been so happy to watch Dish during the ever-expanding political season to avoid the local ads that cable would have inserted. Now there's no refuge short of Netflix.
  5. General DISH™ Discussion
    I think that's a very fair question, and one that I've raised from time to time. But it happens _every_ year at the International CES, no matter the product category. A prototype and a spec sheet are all you need to win there. Then later in the year, when your product is actually ready to sell...
  6. General DISH™ Discussion
    Today at CES, Dish said it "will be releasing a version of DISH Anywhere for Kindle Fire tablets." No other details so far. Sent from my iPhone using DBSTalk
  7. General DISH™ Discussion
    Here's a photo from CES Unveiled this evening. Dish was showing off how it will look in LG's webOS. Sent from my iPhone using DBSTalk
  8. General DISH™ Discussion
    AXS is not (no longer?) listed in Dish's online list of Welcome Pack channels: http://www.dish.com/entertainment/packages/welcome/ If you've got the Welcome Pack and you can still see AXS, you'd better not make any changes to your account. :grin:
  9. General DISH™ Discussion
    http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/keci-other-nbc-stations-go-dark-for-dish-network-subscribers/article_bf5a0934-6130-11e3-95fa-0019bb2963f4.html "Sixteen stations in the New York-based Bonten Media Group - including NBC Montana stations KECI and KCFW of Missoula and Kalispell, along...
  10. General DISH™ Discussion
    (Putting on hip waders) It was my understanding that the Superstation payments went to a pool to pay the content providers (syndicators et al), not the broadcasters. Remember that the law was established waaay back when nobody paid significant retransmission money to local stations. I think...
  11. General DISH™ Discussion
    I faced a similar question earlier this year when I replaced my roof. I had a 61.5 wing dish as well, originally installed for locals on 148 (remember those days?) then repointed to 61.5 for Classic Arts Showcase. CAS has moved to a mainstream satellite, and I couldn't find any reason to replace...
  12. General DISH™ Discussion
    Not counting those small markets with few broadcasters where a major network happens to be carried on a sub-channel, does anyone get his Antenna TV or ME TV or whatever from a local sub-channel delivered via satellite by Dish? I know that some Dish receivers can process OTA channels including...
  13. General DISH™ Discussion
    Just sayin', twasn't economics that created bundling, twas technology. When cable TV was born, you subscribed or you didn't. A real physical filter on each subscriber's line was required for every premium channel (to block or unblock, the technology varied). The world of nigh-infinite channel...
  14. General DISH™ Discussion
    I'm with you, JL. I'll be stunned if the Supers are still available in 2015. I'll be mildly surprised if they're still there on Jan. 1, 2014.
  15. General DISH™ Discussion
    These movies have titles? I never noticed. :P
  16. General DISH™ Discussion
    From today's Multichannel News story: In a statement, Dish said Media General rejected its request for a second extension until Media General is acquired by Young Broadcasting, a broadcaster with which Dish already has an existing retrans agreement. That deal that is expected to be completed...
  17. General DISH™ Discussion
    At CEDIA Expo, I asked a Dish PR guy why Dish had stopped selling the Superstations. He went off to a lengthy discussion with Dish executives out of earshot, then returned and said it was because Dish was legally obliged not to offer them any longer, but they're still grandfathered. Of course...
  18. General DISH™ Discussion
    D'oh! I should have posted my Fox-Dish news in this thread instead of starting a new one. Good thing the moderators can fix stuff like that. :righton: http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/fox-denied-request-to-shut-down-dish-dvrs-place-shifting-features-1200662816/
  19. General DISH™ Discussion
    "A federal court Monday denied Fox Broadcasting's request to block two of the Dish Network's Hopper DVR place-shifting features - although the judge found the broadcaster could prevail at trial." That's what Todd Spangler wrote in Variety a short time ago. In response, Dish Executive Vice...
  20. General DISH™ Discussion
    Years ago, I used to watch WNGS (Buffalo NY) through a FTA dish. All the FTA enthusiasts agreed that WNGS's transponder was horribly overloaded, carrying about 14 channels in a space designed for 10 or less, roughly speaking. WNGS used to show a few Yankees games using WWOR's feed, with the WNGS...
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